when we look up,
finally having torn ourselves
away from the screen,
which has distracted us
from the carnage
of our existence,
will we recognize
the hand we played
in the world's destruction:
in our longing for belonging,
in our striving to meet the expectations
seen on screen -
by having and consuming -
we have devoured the world
and our selves with it -
or will we see nothing;
the transgressions of today
forgotten in the immediacy tomorrow,
so we may rest
with the false innocence
of ignorance
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